Lazy clichés run through the liberal media’s depiction of the so-called “ungovernability of France, popular resistance to the advance of neoliberalism that seems so inexorable elsewhere” and the country’s “rigid labour market and work rules that supposedly stand in the… Continue Reading
We live in troubling times. Across Europe, the far right is advancing and growing in confidence. In France, the Front National candidate Marine Le Pen entered the run-off for the French presidency in 2017 for only the second time in… Continue Reading
Colin and I first met in 1962 when the Socialist Review Group, the ancestor of the Socialist Workers Party, met at Caxton House Settlement at Finsbury Park.1 I suspect that like me he was a bit in awe of the… Continue Reading
My article “What has happened to the British Labour Movement, and what does it mean for the left in the Unions?”1 has attracted two critical responses in this journal.2 I am grateful to the authors of these papers for their… Continue Reading
Roger Cox was among the earliest members of the Socialist Review Group (SRG), founded by Tony Cliff in the 1950s, a group that would later evolve into the International Socialists (IS) and then the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). As one… Continue Reading
In the summer of 2018, years of repeated mass protest in Iraq culminated in furious demonstrations against the Baghdad regime.1 Centred on the oilfields of the south, they targeted the regime’s corruption and self-serving economic policies. Protestors highlighted problems of… Continue Reading
The 1960s and 1970s were years of the most intense class struggle in modern Turkish history.1 It was a period bookended by two military coups. The first, in 1960, opened up a liberal period in which socialist ideas flourished and… Continue Reading
In December 2017 the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) formed a coalition government with the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP). This was a real shock to anti-fascists around the world. An international call to boycott Austria’s new cabinet, first published… Continue Reading
You have to be realistic rather than optimistic or pessimistic—Ken Loach, 2008.1 Appearances are often deceptive. Kenneth Charles Loach is a slightly built and softly spoken Oxford University law graduate. Yet when it comes to a wide range of social,… Continue Reading
A century now separates us from the revolution that swept Germany in November 1918. It is likely that this event will pass relatively unnoticed both here and where it took place. But for Marxists, it is a pivotal point of… Continue Reading